Extreme Headache Warning
Ok, so I didn’t find this anywhere else and thought that this should be made known.
I was well into my workout and got to bench press. I did my warmup sets and then my 1st workset. On the 2nd workset I did the full range reps and then a static hold near the bottom (I do these in my squat rack at home with the long pins at about chest height so I can drop the weight if needed and not kill myself LOL).
Anyways, I get done with the static hold and drop the weight. Almost immediately after doing so, I get an extremely intense pain that shot up from my lower neck up to the top of my head.
I slowly got up and and the pain eventually went away (about 10-20 seconds I would say). I checked to see if everything felt ok, I could move my arms, hands, legs, feet and didn’t feel dizzy or nauseous so I didn’t think anything of it.
Later on that night, I was looking up the symptoms on webmd.com and came across the end result, and there was only one, Brain Aneurysm! 
I started to freak out as you may have imagined. So I called my parents and my dad said that I should have gone to the emergency room immediately after feeling that pain, but since nothing had happened up to then, I was probably ok.
So I go to the doctor’s office the next day and have my doc check me out and she said that it was more likely due to an intense, involutary contraction of the trapezius muscle as everything looked ok.
But I did find some symptoms to look for if you have the same type of issue. Go immediately to the hospital if you have the following symptoms as well as an intense headache (described on webmd as the worst headache ever):
Here it is directly from webmd:
| Symptoms of a ruptured brain aneurysm often come on suddenly. They may include:
* Sudden, severe headache (sometimes described as a “thunderclap” headache that is very different from any normal headache). |
| What is a brain aneurysm?
A brain (cerebral) aneurysm is a bulging, weak area in the wall of an artery that supplies blood to the brain. In most cases, a brain aneurysm causes no symptoms and goes unnoticed. In rare cases, the brain aneurysm ruptures, releasing blood into the skull and causing a stroke. When a brain aneurysm ruptures, the result is called a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Depending on the severity of the hemorrhage, brain damage or death may result. The most common location for brain aneurysms is in the network of blood vessels at the base of the brain called the circle of Willis. |
and finally
| What causes a brain aneurysm?
A person may inherit the tendency to form aneurysms, or aneurysms may develop because of hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis) and aging. Some risk factors that can lead to brain aneurysms can be controlled, and others can’t. The following risk factors may increase your risk of developing an aneurysm or, if you already have an aneurysm, may increase your risk of it rupturing:1 * Family history. People who have a family history of brain aneurysms are twice as likely to have an aneurysm as those who don’t. |
Hope that can help someone out there. It was a scary experience.
